title: Connections and lingering presence as cocreated art.
abstract: Parse described nursing practice as a performing art where the nurse is like a dancer. Just as in any dance performance, unplanned events may occur. When a nurse is artistically living, unique and meaningful performances might emerge from unplanned events. In this practice column, the author describes how shifting experiences surfaced with unforeseen connections and lingering presence during her study of feeling confined. In her study she was in true presence with men living in prison, who were diagnosed with severe mental illness. The humanbecoming school of thought was the nursing perspective guiding the research study.
authors.affiliation: University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.
authors.forename: Leona F
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Dempsey
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001154:Art; D001294:Attitude to Health; D003615:Dancing / Q000523:psychology; D005610:Freedom; D006803:Human Development; D006808:Humanism; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D016294:Models, Nursing; D008960:Models, Psychological; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009742:Nursing Theory; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D011329:Prisoners / Q000523:psychology*; D036301:Qualitative Research; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013561:Symbolism